Are you somehow disputing their captains own words? He said there is nothing better than beating the Leafs. Might as well take him at his word I’d say.
It was all an on ice protest about Reaves return and the music in the room. Mitchy and AM wanted Beibs, Willie insisted on ABBA and Reaves played Gangsta. That explains it all.
Modern history, yes. Embrace it, have fun with it.
That’s what I’m saying. I get why people are against the city, but the Leafs should be the lovable losers, like the Cubs.
Just quoting back what was said in their locker room, I’m not aware of any other team making that claim. There was that one broadcaster as well but he is gone now. Lol
It is literally a direct quote from him. Take it up with them I guess lmao not sure why this has you so pressed. It's a joke there big guy. We are making fun of them, they will be alright. Buzz Killington over here.
I understand that concept but no, not they way they were doing it...throw the puck on the net sure, but have bodies in front to tip etc....they werent even looking to pass even when a player was open....shoot shoot shoot....low percentage plays, mostly easy peasy for Sammy. Didnt find that part of their game very good and if this is the way they play then I dont see them doing any damage in the playoffs regardless of where they end up in the regular season.
I would hope they want to see more player movement involving star players whether by trades or free agency like in other sports. It's free P.R., assuming the NHL is into that sort of thing.
I dont know about worse Buffalo, Phoenix, ..... might have something to say about that but the most dysfunctional I'd give you that.
You don't see how more trades and FA signings involving stars would get more media coverage compared the relatively limited star movement that currently exists? Seems pretty self-explanatory.
That has nothing to do with NTC and the need to outlaw them. They aren’t mandatory on a contract. They are given out by choice.
Except it's come to the point where most good players in their prime get a NTC/NMC.
The NHL tends to be the opposite; they don't want players moving around. And I suspect it's because of how things were in the pre-draft era, as well as how things were from around 95 to 05, when the lockout occurred... That is, Bettman came to the realization that players weren't willing to throw most of their careers away playing in front of nobody in his Southern expansion experiments, so he needed to slow down player movement to keep players there. The only other league besides the NHL that has a hard cap like this is the NFL, and the NFL combines theirs with most contracts being no-guarantee contracts by default, meaning that if a player isn't earning what they're worth, the team can cut them without incurring a penalty. But most of the NHL's actions towards player movement have been designed to cut down on it as much as possible, and I still believe it's because of the pre-draft era where half the players in the NHL wanted to join the Leafs or the Canadiens, and the pre-cap era where teams were building themselves via free agency and poor teams were at a major disadvantage because of the money the rich teams could offer players.
Majority of the good ones do. By my count, over 230 players have some type of clause. Take out ELC players, who are not eligible, and that's about half the league.
